DEA: Marijuana Plant Seizures Decline To Lowest Levels In Nearly A Decade

[Bi0hazard]

Hopefully it continues in this direction....

Original Article Link @ http://norml.org/news/2013/09/26/de...s-decline-to-lowest-levels-in-nearly-a-decade


Washington, DC:
Seizures of indoor and outdoor cannabis crops by the US Drug Enforcement Administration have declined dramatically from 2011 to 2012 and are now at their lowest reported levels in nearly a decade, according to statistics released online by the federal anti-drug agency.

According to the DEA's 2012 Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Statistical Report, the total number of cannabis plants eradicated nationwide fell 42 percent between 2011 and 2012. This continues a trend, as DEA crop seizures previously fell 35 percent nationwide from 2010 to 2011.

The declining national figures are largely a result of reduced plant seizures in California. Coinciding largely with the downsizing of, and then ultimately the disbanding of, the state's nearly 30-year-old Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) program, DEA-assisted marijuana seizures in California have fallen 73 percent since 2010 – from a near-record 7.4 million cultivated pot plants eradicated in 2010 to approximately 2 million in 2012. DEA-assisted cannabis eradication efforts have remained largely unchanged in other states during this same period.

 

[fungzyme]

Sounds like they need their budget cut in half!!

 

[Morcheeba*]

i read in a related article that the dea also quit counting feral hemp plants towards the total # of eradicated plants.

 

[Lazuli]

i love reading about the DEA losing their war, this is great news another point scored for our side

 

[greenthumbdub]

Not around my way.. Feds are in full force here in the midwest. See the choppers flying low every day this summer & a lot of doors getting kicked in. Stay safe

 

[Preacher]

i read in a related article that the dea also quit counting feral hemp plants towards the total # of eradicated plants.

Link please. Because feral hemp accounts for at least 98 percent of the total under previous statistics.

 

[PirateGodBuggy]

Feds must be bored if the primary thing they do is confiscate plants.

Only thing that's important is keeping the community safe.

 

[Snook]

Feds must be bored if the primary thing they do is confiscate plants.

Only thing that's important is keeping the community safe.

in their minds, WE make the community 'unsafe'. and they have money to burn... YOURS and MINE. if they need more, they just lower the tolerances of an existing law or create a new law and enforce it to the max...

 

[Morcheeba*]

Link please. Because feral hemp accounts for at least 98 percent of the total under previous statistics.

that info was in the article linked by op.


(This figure excludes the tens of millions of feral hemp plants which are typically seized and destroyed by DEA agents annually, but are no longer categorized in their reporting.)



peace

 

[Jhhnn]

I think that the DEA should concentrate all their efforts on eradicating Nebraska ditch weed & its cousins all across the Midwest.

It's a hopeless cause, but it'll keep 'em busy.

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

state governments in med states, especially Cali, are refusing to supply man power to the federal government. In a DEA raid most of the people wearing the DEA jackets are local and state cops enlisted to do the bust. They wear the jackets as a form of fear propaganda to make people think the DEA is much bigger than in is.

exact number of agents and employees the DEA, has since it's inception/creation under the Nixon Administration, 5,235 special agents last counted in 2007.

total of 10,759 is the total of employees including Special Agents support staff etc.!

 

[k-s-p]

Looks like it's all about California, Kentucky, and Washington. One of these things is not like the other

 

[supermanlives]

we are winning. yeehaw this bud is for you dea

 

[Morcheeba*]

from article linked.....(This figure excludes the tens of millions of feral hemp plants which are typically seized and destroyed by DEA agents annually, but are no longer categorized in their reporting.)


just a thought: by including feral hemp plants towards total # of eradicated Cannabis plants the dea could make the problem appear much larger than it is in reality.

bigger problem = bigger budgets

lets see if their budget shrinks now.

peace

 

[minds_I]

i love reading about the DEA losing their war, this is great news another point scored for our side

Hello all,

Well, as far as cannabis is concerned.

I am concerned about the other drugs that have clearly proven to be harmful such as meth/heroin/coke and the legal drugs like oxy conton(sp) and others.

I have seen first hand the destruction of personal lives from meth. It was fun at first but soon, it took control of my best friend and he was lost for years till he was busted for a second time and this time the lawyer/money bought him 5 years.

He was a changed man when he left prison.


Another spent 3 years for vehicular manslaughter from a meth run in the middle of the night on a dark highway...killed that years phuquing prom queen/honor student of the small town high school along the way she did.

I was vary fortunate to have not gone to down that path.

So, I welcome to change of paradigm that the DEA is now by virtue of the recent memos, lack of funds and slacking of action with regard to cannabis.

Further, the funds that are appropriated to the DEA can now be better spent in their primary charter.

I see this as a good thing. I would not like to see the complete drug war abandoned.

This is of course just my opinion.

minds_I

 

[Jhhnn]

Gottta love the DEA claim in the .gov link that hydro weed is stronger than that grown in soil. It's amusing, anyway.